landing

1[countable]the area at the top of a set of stairs where you arrive before you go into an upstairs room or move onto another set of stairsGo up to the second-floor landing and it's the door on the right.

2[countable,uncountable]an act of bringing an aircraft or a spacecraft down to the grounda perfect/smooth/safe landingthe first Apollo moon landingThe pilot was forced to make an emergency landing.a landing siteoppositetakeoff

3[countable]an act of bringing soldiers to land in an area that is controlled by the enemy

4[countable]a flat wooden platform on the water where boats let people get on and off, and load and unload goodssynonymjetty